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WORK
EXPERIENCE:
TRACES
Center for History and Culture, Saint Paul/Minnesota;
2001 to the present:
I direct a non-profit educational organization which,
according to its Mission Statement
gathers,
preserves and presents stories of people from the Midwest
and Germany or Austria who encountered each other during
World War II. Many of these stories have lain beneath the
dust left in the wake of a World War most never thought
touched the American Heartland. TRACES brushes
away that dust, unearthing an amazing legacy. As we learn
about these stories, may we rise above–and eventually
defeat–the prejudices, fears and conflicts that otherwise
demean and destroy us.
VOLKSHOCHSCHULEN,
Berlin/Germany; 1993-2001:
Taught
American studies and English at various levels, for various
ages. (From May 1997 to June 1998 I went on several BOOK TOURS
in the United States, Europe, South Africa, Australia and
South America, sponsored by Iowa State University Press, to
publicize Out of Hitler's Reach.)
OSTRAVSKA
UNIVERZITA, Ostrava/Czechoslovakia; 1991-1993:
Taught
American studies, English-language instruction and pedagogy.
FRIENDS
ACADEMY, Locust Valley/New York; 1990-1991:
Taught
history, English and religion, and coordinated
community-service projects; also worked for the RAYKINS
PROJECT in Queens, New York, teaching Russian-Jewish
immigrants English and about American life and institutions.
TWIN
CITIES' MEN'S CENTER, Minneapolis/Minnesota; 1988-1990:
Facilitated
weekly and weekend courses for men in crisis; wrote the
textbook On the Way Home.
OMEGA
HOUSE, Minneapolis/Minnesota; 1985-1990:
Worked
in urban social-work programs.
LIVING
HISTORY FARMS, Des Moines/Iowa; summer 1983:
Worked
as a summer history-program intern as a researcher and a
museum interpreter.
INTENSIVE
ENGLISH AND ORIENTATION PROGRAM, Iowa State Uni./Ames;
1982-1985:
Taught
English and about American life and institutions to
international students
LAOTIAN
INTEGRATION PROGRAM, Clear Lake [Iowa] High School;
1980-1981:
Taught
English and about American life and institutions to Laotian
refugees in Iowa.
EDUCATION:
HUMBOLDT
UNIVERSITAET, Berlin/Germany; 1993-1997 (doctoral defense:
July 1997):
Ph.D.
in Modern History; book Out of Hitler's Reach: The
Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees, 1939-43
(distributed by Iowa State University Press) and dissertation Creating
'New Americans': WWII-Era European Refugees' Formation of
American Identities
KARLOVA
UNIVERZITA, Prague/Czechoslovakia; summer 1991:
TEFL
certificate and Czech-language instruction
GODDARD
COLLEGE, Plainfield/Vermont; 1989-1991:
M.A.
in Cultural and Political History; master's thesis In the
Eagle's Shadow: U.S. Americans Inside Nazi Germany
IOWA
STATE UNIVERSITY, Ames/Iowa; 1982-1985:
B.S.
in History; independent study Rural Iowa: Its Past and Some
Proposals for Its Future, excerpts of which were published
in the Des Moines Sunday Register
PUBLICATIONS
(highlights):
Book
(editor): Only the Least of Me is Hostage: Midwest
POWs in Nazi Germany (Volume 1: Soldiers, Volume II, Airmen),
TRACES, 2004
Book
(editor): Lagerzeitungen (Camp Papers): The
German POW Newspapers at Camp Algona, Iowa, 1943-46,
TRACES, 2003
Book
(editor): Lebenszeichen (Signs of Life): The
Correspondence of German POWs at Camp Algona, Iowa, 1943-46,
TRACES, 2002
Book
(editor): Enemies Within: Iowa POWs in Nazi Germany,
TRACES, 2002
Article:
"What Did You Actually Do?", The Friend, 1999
Article:
"Zuflucht in Iowa", Berliner Zeitung, 1998
Dissertation:
Creating 'New Americans': WWII-Era European Refugees´
Formation of American Identities, 1997
Book:
Out of Hitler´s Reach: The Scattergood Hostel for European
Refugees, 1939-43,Goodfellow Press, 1996, 1997;
distributed by Iowa State University Press
Article:
"Culture and Politics in Post-War United States of
America", Fremdsprachenunterricht: Die Zeitschrift
für das Lehren und Lernen fremder Sprachen, 1996
Article:
"The Scattergood Hostel for European Refugees, 1939-43:
Out of Hitler´s Reach", Friends Journal, 1995
Article:
"Außerhalb der Reichweite Hitlers: Das Heim für
europäische Flüchtlinge in Scattergood, 1939 bis 1943",
Der Quaeker, 1995
Textbook:
A Short Social History of the United States of America,
Ostravska Univerzita Press, 1992
Masters
Thesis: In the Eagle´s Shadow: U.S. Americans Inside
Nazi Germany, 1990
Coursebook:
On the Way Home, Twin Cities Men´s Center
Publications, 1989
Article:
Rural Iowa: Its Past and Some Proposals for Its Future,
excerpted in the Des Moines Sunday Register, 1984 |
